Scarborough and Whitby CCon — Current theme: Political Life

Vision of Britain holds detailed data on every British election since 1832.
The country was divided up geographically into constituencies, and we hold
information about all the constituencies within Great Britain, including
the different versions of their names.
Most votes held in constituencies were as part of General Elections,
when the whole country voted, but we also hold information on By-elections,
when one or two constituencies voted because MPs had resigned, died, etc.
Although today every constituency covers a well-defined geographical area, and
elects just one MP, until 1950 there were also University Constituencies,
whose voters were people who had graduated from a particular university, wherever
they were living now.
Until 1950, many constituencies elected two MPs, and some had as many as four.
Vision of Britain is currently limited to Great Britain, but our data
are all for elections to the UK Parliament at Westminster, so until 1922
the overall result of a General Election depended not just on the British results
held here but also on voting in the whole of Ireland; from 1922 onwards,
southern Ireland was a separate state but Northern Ireland still sends MPs
to Westminster.

We hold these detailed statistics for Scarborough, which we graph
and tabulate here: